“蛟龙”号潜水器全球征集logo
China's National Deep Sea Center and its deep sea research submersible Jiaolong are jointly soliciting for logos around the world.
中国国家深海中心与其深海研究潜水器蛟龙号正共同全球征集徽标。
Jiaolong is out for its first mission in the South China Sea and North Pacific Ocean on June, 2013.
The soliciting will run from November 17 till February 17, 2015.
The decision was announced in Beijing by the National Deep Sea Center.
Jiaolong can dive to a depth of over 7,000 meters.
On June 27, 2012, the Jiaolong carrying two oceanauts, reached a depth of 7,062 meters in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.
It has the greatest depth range of any manned research vehicle in the world, the only manned expeditions to have gone deeper were the dives of the Swiss-designed Trieste bathyscaphe in 1960 and the dive of the Sydney-built Deepsea Challenger in 2012, both diving to Challenger Deep.
The National Deep Sea Center is the world's fifth deep sea research base after Russia, the U.S., France and Japan, focusing on deep sea research, expenditure and training of experts and oceanauts.